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Vish Iyer

President

Service Provider APJ

Vish’s passion is engaging closely with customers, partners, and sales & services teams, and demonstrating how technology can solve all the new challenges and opportuities ahead. A leader in the ICT space, Vish leads Cisco’s APJ Service Provider (SP) business and their 360-relationship in the region.

Vish has deep experience in building carrier class infrastructure with top service providers in the region, coupled with his deep expertise in the enterprise space, puts him in the unique position to partner with SPs in monetizing their B2B space with profitable managed services offerings.

In Vish’s previous role, as the APJC leader for Architectures, he built a high-performance team that helped accelerate the software pivot in line with Cisco’s transformation from hardware to software to subscription across the portfolio.

He has scaled many teams and paved the way for sustainable multi-year growth in Cisco’s architectural business which has translated in driving sustainable recurring software business growth momentum for the region. They have also empowered clients to adopt next-gen infrastructure solutions and strengthened their relationship with Cisco.

In this age of partners, Vish actively collaborates with Tier 1 service providers, and distributors to create compelling joint offerings. These partnerships have significantly bolstered Cisco's market presence. Teams led by Vish have executed on transformation programs leveraging cloud, networking, infrastructure, and security in the largest and most demanding industries such as public services, manufacturing, construction, service provider, retail, banking & finance, food & beverages, and so on – all while delivering with quantifiable business outcomes. In line with Cisco’s overarching purpose, the team is driving an ‘inclusive future for all’ in Asia Pacific by being a partner of choice in the region’s digitization.

Vish aims to build a closer connect between university and industry to foster an innovation mindset among the student community in the region. He works with bodies such as ITU and institutions such as NUS and INSEAD School of Business in Singapore to help nurture young minds, inspire them to innovate, and to succeed as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.

He is directly involved in building Cisco India CSR programs including the ThingQubator platform, which is now India’s leading innovation program for universities and the Cisco Launchpad program. The latter started in India and has now been scaled globally to accelerate startups with disruptive technology ideas.

Vish is passionate about Cisco’s Networking Academy program, including GirlsInSTEM, which aims to equip the next generation and disadvantaged groups with job-worthy networking and cybersecurity skills; and also provides guidance for the programs at the Indian InsƟtute of Technology – Banaras Hindu University, Centre for Networked Intelligence at the Indian InsƟtute of Science (IISc), and NaƟonal University of Singapore, among others.

Vish holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

Articles

May 7, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

What Organizations Can Learn from Service Providers About Investing in AI/ML & LLMs

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is here, and companies are doing everything in their power to leverage it. Among the torchbearers are the service providers in Asia Pacific who are building large language models (LLMs) – which are a derivative of AI/ML; and they’re rapidly deploying…

April 23, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

Geotagging: Digitizing Telco Asset & Critical Infrastructure Management

The strength of a telco is defined by its network coverage. As a result, most telcos have had to scale their networks quickly to deliver a high quality of service to customers and to stay ahead of the competition. This means, rapidly multiplying the number of mobile towers and kilometers of optical fiber…

March 26, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

How & Why Service Providers Are Optimizing Datacenters to Handle AI/ML Workloads

In the modern world, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as pivotal force driving innovation across industries. From various analytics to customer service, to data cleansing and validation, and in the near future, robotic surgeries and large-scale deployment of autonomous…

February 27, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

How Automation is Key to Boosting Profitability for Service Providers

Service Providers (SPs) have seen technology change at a rapid pace over the past few years. To keep up, they’ve made investments – with the ultimate goal of delivering cutting-edge use cases, be it to government bodies, private organizations, or to the public at large. However, in most markets, SPs…

February 22, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

Why Service Providers Must Focus on Network Transformation

Service Providers globally are challenged with growing their revenue while managing their increasing costs in the midst of a rapidly evolving telecommunications market. Additionally, recent heavy investment in 5G license and equipment, and the lack of monetization opportunities, have further…

February 6, 2024

SERVICE PROVIDER

Convergence Drives Simplification & Sustainability for Metro Networks

In the ever-evolving landscape of telecommunications, the complexity of modern metro networks has grown significantly. This is a natural outcome of the expansion of 4G, the rollout of 5G, and the continuous growth in broadband networks, along with the integration of Software Defined Network (SDN)…

October 24, 2023

NETWORKING

How secure networking modernized a massive hospital network

In the digital age, security has been a top concern for healthcare leaders – especially with malicious agents and bad actors constantly looking to steal data, stall operations, and sabotage hospital facilities for financial payouts. It’s why many of the large healthcare facilities in the world have…

October 3, 2023

NETWORKING

Your network is your first line of defense in the hybrid world

In today’s hybrid world, users and the apps they love have evolved. People aren’t tied to their desks and apps don’t necessarily live in data centers – technology has helped break this static relationship – bringing a new-era of hybrid environment. Today’s users and applications reside and operate…

September 12, 2023

NETWORKING

The Green Runway: Transforming Airports into Sustainable Technology Hubs

Domestic and international air traffic, for passenger and freight, have been soaring. Whether we compare with numbers from 2019 or 2021, the burden on airports has been increasing year on year. Most of these facilities act as ultra-efficient hubs and tightly integrate with the global aviation ecosystem…